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Ange (Japanese:アンジュAnge) is a machine created byAZ 2,000 years prior to the events ofPokémon X and Y, situated in what would becomePrism Tower inLumiose City. It is the counterpart to theultimate weapon. Its existence is revealed inPokémon Legends: Z-A, serving a crucial role in the game's main storyline.

History

Background

2,000 years prior to the events ofPokémon X and Y, duringAZ's aimless wandering, a man of great power asked for his help with a way to protectKalos. Instead of making another device that would take from others like theultimate weapon, he decided to build one that would use the eternal life he had bestowed on hisEternal FlowerFloette. The device is christened "Ange", and it is embedded intoPrism Tower. He had planned to use it after reuniting with Floette, but that day did not come to pass as they were living in a time of peace.

Pokémon X and Y

Five years prior toPokémon Legends: Z-A and during the events ofPokémon X and Y,Lysandre sought to activate both Ange and the ultimate weapon at the same time. However, the activation of Ange required Eternal Flower Floette, which Lysandre couldn't find, and thus he settled for activating only the ultimate weapon. After the ultimate weapon was reactivated, the shock caused Ange to reawaken as well, unleashing its Mega Power and causing the phenomenon ofRogue Mega Evolution and the appearance ofMega Crystals acrossLumiose City.

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Fearing the inevitable reactivation of Ange, AZ approachedQuasartico Inc. three years after the re-firing of the ultimate weapon with a warning. Quasartico Inc. itself would soon establish theZ-A Royale as a ploy to help AZ find the strongestMega Evolution user in the city. Conversations with AZ and Lysandre, now known as "L", revealed that the only way to stop Ange is to have aPokémon Trainer Mega Evolve AZ's Floette. L also mentioned that the player would needZygarde, who had tasked him with helping it regain its full power and find a Trainer worthy of it.

As revealed inMega Dimension, at some point after Prism Tower was closed down byQuasartico Inc., aDarkrai wandered into Lumiose and settled on top of Prism Tower to stay away from everyone down below. As a result, however, it got exposed to all theMega Power leaking from Ange, causing its nightmare powers to be enhanced and go out of control. This created adimension composed of the subconscious thoughts and memories of the people and Pokémon of Lumiose, which came to be known asHyperspace Lumiose.

At the climax of Pokémon Legends: Z-A,Urbain/Taunie manage to reach the control panel of Ange with Mega Floette and have her absorb the Mega Power emanating from the tower. However, instead of shutting down, Ange goes fully rogue, absorbing Mega Floette's power and turning into Hyperrogue Ange Floette, unleashing gigantic flowers and roots all over the city and causing many wildPokémon to undergo Rogue Mega Evolution. The player, with the help of everyone in the city, reaches Zygarde and earns its trust, and they and Zygarde work together to defeat Hyperrogue Ange Floette. After its defeat, Hyperrogue Ange Floette unleashes a powered upLight of Ruin onLumiose City, necessitating the player to Mega Evolve Zygarde into Mega Zygarde and have it unleash itsNihil Lightmove, releasing AZ's Floette from Ange's influence and eliminating Ange for good. The destruction of the machine summonsXerneas andYveltal to Lumiose City, attracted by the machine's released life energy.

Mega Dimension

Spatial distortions leading toHyperspace Lumiose started appearing all over the real Lumiose, threatening to merge and swallow the entire city.

Abilities

Ange is powered up byAZ'sEternal Flower Floette. Both the strongestMega Evolution user and AZ's Mega Floette are necessary to control it using the control panel at the top ofPrism Tower.

By using theMega Power contained within, it is capable of granting eternal life to living beings. While the machine is intended to be activated using Mega Floette, it can also be unintentionally activated on its own when sensing danger, such as the shock of the ultimate weapon's activation inPokémon X and Y. Its Mega Power can attractwild Pokémon toLumiose City, notably theLegendary PokémonXerneas andYveltal. It can also induceRogue Mega Evolution on wild Pokémon and causeMega Crystals to form across the city. When the machine is fully activated, Ange will reveal its true form, Ange Floette. However, if the activation fails and Mega Floette loses control of the machine, she will be absorbed into Ange and both will become Hyperrogue Ange Floette, a state similar to Rogue Mega Evolution, where it'll gain the ability of using Floette's moves (particularlyLight of Ruin), control gigantic roots and even giant versions of Floette's Eternal Flowers, which also can also use Floette's moves.

Hyperrogue Ange Floette

Hyperrogue Ange Floette (Japanese:超大暴走アンジュフラエッテExtremely Rampant Ange Floette) is a related transformation ofAZ'sFloette caused by Ange. It fights similarly toRogue MegaPokémon; the main difference is that Ange itself has gone rogue due to excessive Mega Energy instead.

Unique to this fight is that the player is facing Hyperrogue Ange Floette with the aid ofZygardeComplete Forme. The fight is a scripted encounter where the player deals damage to Red and Blue Eternal Flower opponents and then Zygarde attacks with either of itssignature moves three times before ending the fight withCore Enforcer.

Hyperrogue Ange Floette cannot be directly damaged by the player. Zygarde will distract the black flower high in the sky above, while the player battles it on the ground to create an opening for Zygarde to launch an attack. The creature battles the player using a Blue Eternal Flower and Red Eternal Flower that aretypeless, immune to allstatus conditions, and resistant to all regular attacks, but are vulnerable toPlus Moves.

The flowers can use one of several attacks, and will prioritise targeting the player themselves over their Pokémon:

• A lashing attack that can hits targets at close range in front of the flower twice. Only the Red Eternal Flower uses this attack.
• A barrage of energy projectiles that travel in one direction.
• A shockwave that damages anyone within a small area of effect.

In the second phase of the fight, they gain the following attacks:

• A powerful, continuous stream of energy that is beamed at long-range in one direction, dealing very heavy continuous damage to anyone struck by it. This attack has a long wind-up.
• A toxic aura that damages anyone within it. Only the Blue Eternal Flower uses this attack.

In the third phase of the fight, they gain one additional attack:

• A single large projectile that deals high damage.

Additionally, in the third phase, the flowers' previous attacks are modified:

• The toxic aura attack now creates a large aura around the flower.
• The shockwave attack deals damage in a targeted area of the ground, which is telegraphed with purple sparks appearing on the ground before becoming electrified.
• The flowers will track their target when firing the projectile barrage.
• The energy stream attack deals higher damage.
• The lashing attack hits multiple times around the flower, before ending with a single powerful slam.

Defeating a flower will deal a small portion of damage to Hypperogue Ange Floette. After defeating both flowers, the player will switch to Zygarde in the sky, who is able to useThousand Arrows,Thousand Waves, orLand's Wrath to strike the black flower. Regardless of which move is used, Zygarde will deal a large portion of damage to Hyperrogue Ange Floette. The player will then switch back to theplayer character on the ground, who will need to defeat the flowers again in order to create an opening for Zygarde to attack once again.

After the first phase, the black flower will useLight of Ruin, and Zygarde will create a green barrier that the player must quickly move under for protection. Occasionally, the flowers will submerge into the ground, singnaling that the black flower is about to use this attack again. Once Hyperrogue Ange Floette reaches lowHP, the player switches back to Zygarde, who must attack the black flower usingCore Enforcer to defeat the entity.

Following this, Hyperrogue Ange Floette will make a final, desperate attempt to destroy Lumiose City using Light of Ruin. Thepebble in the player'ssatchel will start reacting, and they will be prompted to select it, turning it into aZygardite which is subsequently used toMega Evolve Zygarde. As Mega Zygarde, the player must use one final move,Nihil Light to stop the attack and destroy the machine once and for all. Unlike Rogue Mega Evolutions, Hyperrogue Ange Floette cannot be refought post-game, and is fought only once in the finale of the main story.

Mission	Location	Pokémon		Assistance
37 "Operation Protect Lumiose"	Centrico Plaza		Hyperrogue Ange Floette	Zygarde
			Blue Eternal Flower
			Red Eternal Flower

Appearance

Hyperrogue Ange Floette was formed out ofPrism Tower when Ange became overwhelmed by theMega Power ofAZ's Floette, fusing with her. Its body is composed of metal trussing, with all of the building's concrete and glass having crumbled away when vines erupted out of it during the transformation. Bundles of thick black vines that resemble electrical cables thread throughout the inside of the hollow metal beams, holding the broken building together.

At the top of the tower is an enormous flower bud inside of a metal cage made out of three rings. The cage ends in closed vertical pincers, giving it the appearance of a snout. The bud has two glowing purple eyes on each side, which are connected by a V-shaped groove that extends towards the tip of the bud. At the base of the bud are faintly visible black leaves resembling scales. Erupting from the top are two branches that have three spikes each, with the spikes on one being blue and the other being red. From the back of the bud hang several long tentacle-like vines, and on the back of the neck is a line of hollow oval-shaped leaves that stick straight out like spikes. Both the bud and the cage can open like a mouth, and at the center of the bud is a smaller crystalline bud which is used as a focal point of Hyperrogue Ange Floette's power when attacking withLight of Ruin.

The bottom of the tower is raised from the ground and is made of two layers of triangular, trussed plates that are curved on the bottom, resembling an upside-down, partially bloomed flower. Above that is a fence of upwards-pointing spikes that go all the way around the base.

The tower's four support pillars become legs, connected to the base by more bundled vines. Each leg has an 'ankle' formed by a metal block, with another metal block acting as the 'foot'. The vines that run through the leg twist when coming out of the ankle and connecting to the foot, as if drilling down into it. A long metal spike sticks out of the top of each leg beam, and black branches jut out of various areas of the legs.

The middle of the tower is disconnected, with the vines bulging out of it. More oval leaves grow out of it here, pointing in various directions. Eternal Flowers that are either red or blue grow out of the knees and the two halves of the tower, becoming smaller the farther up they grow.

After Hyperrogue Ange Floette is defeated, the tower is left in a dilapidated state, covered in moss and plants. The legs are sunken back into the ground and the two halves of the bud's cage stick out to the sides like moose antlers. The site is declared awild zone, specificallyWild Zone 20, and is filled with trees.

Gallery

Sprites and models

Hyperrogue Ange Floette sprite from Legends: Z-A	Blue Eternal Flower sprite from Legends: Z-A	Red Eternal Flower sprite from Legends: Z-A

Trivia

• The physical design of Ange heavily resembles that of theultimate weapon, with both being based onFloette's Eternal Flower as they were both built byAZ.
• Ange's ability to grant eternal life is reflected byXerneas, as both have the power to give. This is contrasted by the ultimate weapon andYveltal, which both have the power to take.
  • The blue and red coloration of the Eternal Flowers the player must battle on the ground are reminiscent of Xerneas and Yveltal's respective colors.
• Although it is not an actualPokémon, Hyperrogue Ange Floette is technically an object coded to function similarly to a Pokémon. Internally, it is identified aspokemon_last.
• Ange marks the second time in thecore series that an enemy combatant battled by the player's Pokémon is not a Pokémon itself, the first beingPokéstar Studios opponents inPokémon Black 2 and White 2. It is the sixth time in the series as a whole, afterDark Rust, theBittercold, theVoid Shadows, andDark Matter inspin-off games.
• Hyperrogue Ange Floette bears a number of similarities to theGiant Rock featured inPokémon the Series: XY. Both are artificial constructs that absorb a Pokémon and take on aspects of its physical appearance, are capable of unleashing giant roots and firing powerful lasers, and are both ultimately destroyed by Zygarde.
• Hyperrogue Ange Floette is the only boss that can't be rematched as asimulation.

Names

Related articles

• AZ's Floette
• Mega Evolution
• Ultimate weapon

Mega Evolutions

Introduced withPokémon X and Y

Introduced withPokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Introduced withPokémon Legends: Z-A

Introduced withMega Dimension

Related mechanics:Primal Reversion •Bond Phenomenon •Ultra Burst
See also:Mega Evolution characteristics •Mega Stone •Key Stone •Infinity Energy •Mega Energy •Rogue Mega Evolution •Mega Power •Donut

• Non-Pokémon creatures
• Pokémon Legends: Z-A